Valuation Abuse In Conservation Easements – Rare Or Pervasive?
Way back in 2011 covering a private letter ruling that disallowed exempt status for a sketchy land trust I came up with a prescient title Conservation Easements A New Field For Villainy.
Tax Court Demolishes Deconstruction Deduction
Image by By Arturo Espinosa SeguirJacques Derrida for PIFALPencil on Fabriano. - This piece really has nothing to do with the kind of deconstruction that Derrida...
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.